Honore De Balzac Quotes, Hate Quotes, Hatred Quotes

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littleness, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

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If youth were not ignorant and timid, civilization would be impossible.

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Does anyone know where these gondolas of Paris come from? [Fr., Ne sait on pas ou viennent ces gondoles Parisiennes?]

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Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.

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When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa.

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In family life people almost always adjust themselves to misfortune. They make a bed of it and hope makes them accept that bed, however hard it is.

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Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.

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Do you know how a man makes his way here? By brilliant genius or by skilful corruption. You must either cut your way through these masses of men like a cannon ball, or steal among them like a plague.

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For the person who loves God, worship is the daily bread of patience.

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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?

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Suffering predisposes the mind to devoutness; and most young girls, prompted by instinctive tenderness, lean towards mysticism, the obscurer side of religion.

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Marriage is a fight to the death, before which the wedded couple ask a blessing from heaven, because it is the rashest of all undertakings to swear eternal love; the fight at once commences and victory, that is to say liberty, remains in the hands of the cleverer of the two.

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How fondly swindlers coddle their dupes! No mother is as caressing or thoughtful towards her adored child as a merchant in hypocrisy toward his milch-cow.

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The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss to account is a crime that has never been found out, because it was properly executed.

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The glutton is much more than an animal and much less than a man.

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Little minds find satisfaction for their feelings, good or bad, in little things.

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You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

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Ah! how much a mother learns from her child! The constant protection of a helpless being forces us to so strict an alliance with virtue, that a woman never shows to full advantage except as a mother. Then alone can her character expand in the fulfillment of all life's duties and the enjoyment of all its pleasures.

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Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.

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It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment.

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